- tampon 衛生棉條
- spotting 月經外漏,沾到褲子或裙子上。
例:Meadow, do you have a tampon? I'm spotting and the dispenser in the lady's room is out. - dispenser 分配的機器 (如販賣機)
例:cash dispenser 提款機、soap dispenser 公共廁所裡提供洗手乳的設備、paper towel dispenser 公共廁所提供衛生紙的設備
- merchant 商人、店主
例:She's just the wife of some rich merchant. - semiotics 符號學
- captain-of-industry 工廠 (或組織) 領導人、大老闆
例:I know you think I'm like a hard, cold, captain-of-industry type. That's not all there is. - make one's own way 成功、發跡
例:She made her own way in the world. - puss 臉
例:Spit it out. Whenever I bring her up, you get this weird puss. - draw 吸引
例:Can we say that there are certain kinds of people that are drawn to fire? Looking for an inevitable result, like a moth to a flame?
- like a moth to a flame 飛蛾撲火
- side of beef 牛排
- frown 皺眉、不悅
例:What's he got to be frowning about? - sack 袋、麻布袋
例:Fucking crackhead sack of shit. - Christmas play = Nativity play 以耶穌誕生為主題的話劇,美國很多小學生在聖誕節時都會參與演出。
- substance abuse 濫用會成癮的物質 (藥物、酒精等)
- have it in for sb. 有意圖傷害某人、對誰有敵意
例:She said I always had it in for John. - plaster 石膏、上石膏
例:The way these trucks go by out here? Maybe I'll get plastered onto a grill. - go ballistic 生氣、發怒、憤怒
例:Wouldn't Tony go ballistic if I was in on it? - jump ship 跳船、跳槽
例:If you ever think about jumping ship, you know my number. - courtesy van / car 免費接送客人的車,可能是飯店或機場提供的服務。
- give a lift 載誰一乘、開車載人
例:I'll give her a lift. I'm going out anyway. - homemaker 家庭主婦
- latch onto 取得、開始理解、變得親近、變得熟悉
例:At least your daughter doesn't have to latch onto a man for success. - bourgeois 中產階級
- early riser 早起的人
- marquee 戲院看板、公車車頭上標示目的地的牌子
例:How do you think they got their name on the marquee? (打出名號、出名)
- clap = gonorrhea = STD 淋病
例:I caught the clap from some hippie broad I was fucking. My dick was dripping like a busted pipe. - fast track 快速達到目標的捷徑
例:Your father and Tony was on the fast track to being made, and I was still a little shit here, like the two of you. - rinse (用水) 沖洗
例:Make sure you rinse those plates before you put them in the dishwasher. It clogs. - livestock 家畜、牲畜
- all manner of = all kinds of 各式各樣的
例:We can't help but be amazed at the instincts they posses. To protect all manner of livestock. To be protective of us.
- nurture 養育、提供營養
例:Nurture their defenses they were born with, using the natural body defense system in Pedigree. - slanted 傾斜的、有傾向的
之前的相似字:oblique
例:Does my car look slanted? Oh, shit. I have a flat.
- slash 砍、割
- dealership 代理權、經銷權
- guilty conscience 罪惡感
例:Why would you offer to pay for them if you didn't have a guilty conscience? - Where do you get off? = How dare you?
- laden 裝載的、負擔重的
- call into question 質疑、討論
例:This immigrant, alcoholic, probably HIV-laden slut slashes my tires and you have the nerve to call my life into question? - for all intents and purposes 實際上、本質上、實質上
例:For all intents and purposes, that's Ralph's game. - free agent 獨立自主的人、可自由簽約的球員
例:We're like free agents. We dictate the terms, not them.
- doctorate 博士學位
例:He said you were getting a doctorate in psychiatry from Seton Hall. - ovarian 卵巢的。例:ovarian cancer。
- hormone 荷爾蒙
- out of the question 不可能、絕對不行、沒什麼好講的
例:You made a sacred vow. Divorce is out of the question.
- culpable 有罪的、該責備的
例:There's a point inside yourself. An inner boundary beyond which you feel culpable. - forego 放棄、居先、拋諸腦後
例:Learn to live on the good part. Forego those things that lay without it. - OB/GYN = O&G = Obstetrics and Gynaecology 婦產科
- mad-cow disease 狂牛症
- lease 出租、租約、租期
例:I still have another year on my lease.
- ovary 卵巢
- head up one's ass 搞不清楚狀況、惹人厭
例:You wanna spend your life with your head up your ass, be my guest. - calamari 烏賊 (義大利菜)
- bite one's tongue 為了避免傷人或尷尬,而把想說的話吞回去。
例:- I thought I was pregnant. - Bite your tongue. At our age?
- roll off one's back 不在乎、不影響某人
例:The girl is so different than I was at her age. It just rolls off her back. There's no weight loss, no sleepless nights.
- for crying out loud = for God's sake
例:The president of the United States for crying out loud. Look what his wife had to put up with, with the blow jobs and the stained dress. - stick by 忠於
例:She stuck by him, and put up with the bullshit. - spun 紡織、作繭、結網
例:She took all that negative shit he gave her and spun it into gold. - gaudy 俗麗的、華而不實的
- take a dump 大便
- burn sb. at the stake 綁在木樁上燒死、嚴厲地處罰
- adage 諺語、俗語、古語
例:Remember the old adage, son. Leave them while you're looking good.
- Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. 甘迺迪名言之一。意思是成功時大家都要分一杯羹,失敗時卻無人敢承擔。
- erectile 勃起的
例:If you're one of thousands of men who suffer from erectile dysfunction, you already know that it's no laughing matter. - no laughing matter 不是開玩笑的、嚴重的
- bulge 膨脹、凸起、使膨脹、男性褲襠鼓起來之現象
例:Maybe the doctor can give you a bulge.
- replicate 複製、折疊
例:How did you recognize in Gloria, underneath all her layers of sophistication, this deeply wounded, angry being, that would let you replicate once again your relationship with your mother? - incessant 不間斷的、不停的。例:incessant self-regard。
- self-regard 關注自己、自尊
- vis-a-vis (法文) 面對面的、比較、對應
例:You made one good decision in your life vis-a-vis women. - pep 活力、精力
之前的同義字:vigor - bake sale 在學校或教堂等地方舉辦的義賣活動,通常賣些餅乾、蛋糕和麵包等糕點。
- looney 瘋子、神經病
2009/04/13
The Sopranos 3x12 - Amour Fou 英文筆記
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